Austrian parish listens to priest, none receive the host

Austrian parish listens to priest, none receive the host

NPR

By Christa Pongratz-Lippitt

The parish church of Amras, Austria, was full for the first-Communion Mass on April 22. Shortly before Communion, Norbertine Fr. Patrick Busskamp announced that only Catholics who were in a state of grace should come forward to Communion. Catholics who are divorced and remarried and Catholics who do not attend Mass every week were not worthy to receive the Eucharist, he said. When Communion time came, not a single adult came forwar